Compass for Kids Inc
Programs
Program 1 [2018]
Club Compass is currently serving five schools within Springfield School District 186. Black Hawk, Dubois, Graham, Harvard Park and McClernand. Club Compass is free to participating students. All students are selected and referred by their school based on elgibility criteria. Club Compass serves approximately 100-125 students. Each school Compass serves is paired with two or more community partners. Community partners host the Club Compass site for their neighborhood school and make an ongoing commitment to their partner school and to supporting Club Compass. Community partners are often churches, but can also be neighborhood associations, civic groups or local businesses. As a team, the community partners work together to provide the program location, volunteers, snack, dinner and needed supplies. Each Club Compass site has the same major components: snack, an evidence-based social-emotional curriculum lesson, academic time, Life Skills classes, and a healthy family-style dinner. A site director (Compass for Kids staff member) oversees and manages the program site, acts as the liaison between the school, students, volunteers, and parents, and ensures a structured, consistent, high-quality program experience. The program is otherwise staffed by dedicated, loving volunteers who serve as classroom helpers and mentors to the children.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJun 1, 2017 – May 31, 2018Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$135.9KProgram 2 [2018]
Camp Compass is a free summer program for at-risk elementary students of Springfield School District 186. Camp Compass is designed to improve reading and math skills to prevent learning loss over the summer months and close the achievement gap between low-income students and their higher-income peers. Camp Compass is an academic intervention where licensed teachers instruct 100+ students three hours per day, five days per week, for the six weeks of camp. Camp Compass incorporates enrichment activities and field trips to create a fun camp-like environment. Mornings are reserved for academics while afternoons are filled with a wide array of activities coordinated around a weekly theme such as STEM, Arts, Sports, Healthy Living. Transportation, breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack are provided.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJun 1, 2017 – May 31, 2018Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$129.2KProgram 3 [2018]
The Backpack Feeding Program is a partnership between Compass for Kids, HSHS St. John's Hospital, and the Central Illinois Foodbank to address child food insecurity. The program sends home food with the children in Club Compass and Camp Compass for over the weekend. Our goal is to provide each child with two breakfasts, two lunches, two snacks and two dinners. Children in Springfield School District 186 receive free breakfast and lunch at school, but many of them do not have access to food (or nutritious food) during out-of-school hours. We believe our kids need healthy food so they can grow into healthy adults. The backpack feeding program is an add-on to our school year and summer programs.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJun 1, 2017 – May 31, 2018Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$22K
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